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Associate professor of Stanford and Tufts, Dr. John Ioanaddis, shared his controversial research with The Atlantic in 2010 showing mistakes in traditional healthcare teaching. In his original research he looked at the top 50 most cited, presumably most respected, articles in healthcare and found that 40% of them had their findings changed or overturned completely.

When projecting the error rate to the rest of medical literature, Dr. Ioanaddis estimated that 90% of what was known in healthcare was wrong.

To many, his 2010 announcement seemed bold, yet in the short five years since his article, look at how medicine has changed. More